That's not funny

[firecat]

I am no fan of Governor Palin, but I am also not happy about jokes at her expense that are based on her sex or her sexual attractiveness. I think such jokes are going to set back the cause of electing women to political offices.

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[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm not American, but I haven't actually seen many jokes that seem to be about Sarah Palin's sex or sexual attractiveness. I've seen quite a few that aim for her "gosh darn it, aren't I cute?" behaviour (and some of them miss), and I think they're quite legitimate, because to me that is preposterous behaviour from someone campaigning for high office, just as George W. Bush's "good ole boy" is.

What I've been really offended about, and to some extent still haven't gotten over, is the sense that Sarah Palin was chosen to attract disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters. The idea that she, by sharing sex chromosomes, is remotely a substitute, and that we're not supposed to notice (or care about) all the actual policy, experience and personality differences between them - that's what has been most sexist about this campaign, to my mind.

[firecat]

What I've been really offended about, and to some extent still haven't gotten over, is the sense that Sarah Palin was chosen to attract disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters.

Yep or at least there was a pretense along those lines. The reports of disaffected HC supporters were promoted by a McCain partisan.

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

The disaffected Hillary supporters I know were chased into the arms of Obama by Palin. If McCain had picked somebody more middle-of-the-road, they might have gone with McCain.

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, that plan has backfired, much to the credit of the intelligence of the women who supported Hillary.


I've also heard that Palin has her eye on the 2012 election, and so does Hillary (or maybe she's looking ahead 8 years).

anyway, wouldn't it be grand to elect Hillary when she runs against Palin? on the other hand, I don't want Palin to get that close again.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope Palin doesn't get anywhere in the vicinity of running for that kind of office again. Unfortunately, she strikes me as not remotely attentive enough to clues the outside world is providing about her incompetence at this level. (And that's certainly not intended to be sexist - she reminds me very much of a male former friend who also had plans of running for public office, and I thought "the real political operators are going to eat you for breakfast, mate", but didn't say it, because I don't think he'd remotely understand what I meant.)